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Byron J. Good Home Address CURRICULUM VITAE 2016 Name: Byron J. Good Home Address: 77 Raymond Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 Office Address: Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School 641 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 (617) 432-2612 [email protected] Date of Birth: March 14, 1944 Education: 1964 no degree University of Nigeria 1966 B.A. Goshen College (Mathematics) 1969 B.D. Harvard Divinity School (Comparative Study of Religions) 1977 Ph.D. University of Chicago (Social Anthropology) Academic Appointments: 1992- Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University 1996- Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (in residence 1 to 6 months/year) 2000-2006 Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School 1992-2000 Vice Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School 1993-94 Acting Chair, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School 1986-92 Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Anthropology 1983-86 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Anthropology 1976-83 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Departments of Psychiatry and Family Practice, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis Other Appointments: 2015-2018 Director (with Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good), Building a Program of Comprehensive Mental Health: Implementation and Evaluation of a Program of Integrated Mental Health Care in the Primary Health Care Centers of Yogyakarta (supported by the Center for Global Health Delivery–Dubai, Harvard Medical School) 2014-2016 Director (with Hans Pols and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good), “Psychiatry in Indonesia: Historical and Contemporary (supported by the Australian Research Council Grant) 1984-2008 Director, N.I.M.H. Post-Doctoral Training Program in Clinically Relevant Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine 1988-2006 Senior Tutor, Oliver Wendell Holmes Society, Harvard Medical School 1 2000-2016 Director (with Prof. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good), Training Program in International Mental Health (supported by Fogarty International Center to provide fellowships to psychiatrists from Shanghai Mental Health Center and the Peking University Institute of Mental Health) 2011-14 Director (with Prof. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good), International Partnership for Strengthening Health Systems in Indonesia: Building New Capacity for Mental Health Care. USAID-funded inter-university program with Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Honorary Lectures: 2000 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, University of Rochester 2010 R. R. Marett Memorial Lecture, Oxford University Awards and Honors: 2010 Medical Anthropology Students Association Mentoring Award, Society for Medical Anthropology 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Psychological Anthropology Editorial Boards: 1977- Editorial Board, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1986-2002 Editor-in-Chief, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1990-1998 Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press Series in Medical Anthropology 1998-2002 Editorial Board, Ethnos 1999-2004 Editorial Board, Anthropology and Humanism 2006- Editorial Board, Early Intervention in Psychiatry 2010- Editorial Board, Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry Memberships, Offices in Professional Societies: 1975- American Anthropological Association 1975- Society for Medical Anthropology 1980- Society for Psychological Anthropology 1985-1987 Executive Committee, Society for Psychological Anthropology 1996- Asian Studies Association 2000- Pacific Rim College of Psychiatry 2000- International Early Psychiatry Association 2013-2015 President, Society for Psychological Anthropology Primary Areas of Specialization: Medical, Psychological, and Psychiatric Anthropology; Anthropological Theory, with special focus on current theories of subjectivity; Hauntology. Indonesia – Yogyakarta (Java) and Aceh; Southeast Asia; Islamic societies. Cross-Cultural Studies of Mental Illness (psychosis, PTSD, panic disorder, depression); Studies of Psychotic Illness in Java; Studies of Violence, Conflict, and Post-Conflict Mental Health in Aceh; Developing Mental Health Services in Low Resource Settings; Mental Health Training Programs for China, Indonesia, and the East/Southeast Asia region. Teaching Responsibilities: 2 Director, Medical Student Teaching Programs, Department of Social Medicine (1998- 2002) Co-Director, NIMH Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services (1984-2008) Co-Director, Program in Medical Anthropology, Harvard University Co-Director, Melbourne University-Harvard Medical School International Mental Health Training Program (2000-2006) Director, International Mental Health Training Program (with grant from Fogarty International Center, to train fellows in China, 2000-2016) Regularly teach graduate seminars in anthropology: Theories of Subjectivity in Contemporary Anthropology; Culture and Mental Illness; Anthropological Interviewing; Ethnographic Methods for Anthropological Research. Required course for Harvard Medical School students in the Health Science and Technology track, HST 934: Introduction to Global Medicine: Bioscience, Technologies, Disparities, Strategies; Course on Ethnographic Methods for MMSc students in Global Health Delivery Masters Program. 3 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS 1. 1985 Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good, editors. Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder. [Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series.] Los Angeles: U. of California Press. 2. 1992 Mary-Jo D. Good, Paul Brodwin, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, editors. Pain as Human Experience: An Anthropological Perspective. Berkeley: U. of California Press. 3. 1994 Byron J. Good. Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective (The 1990 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures). Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press. (Translated and published in French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.) 4. 1995 Robert Desjarlais, Leon Eisenberg, Byron J. Good, and Arthur Kleinman. World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low Income Countries. New York: Oxford University Press. 5. 2004 Richard Shweder and Byron Good, eds. Clifford Geertz by his Colleagues. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Translated into Indonesian.) 6. 2005 Guido Giarelli, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron Good, eds. Clinical Hermeneutics. Bologna, Italy (in Italian only). 7. 2007 Joao Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds. Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations. University of California Press. 8. 2008 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron Good, eds. Postcolonial Disorders. University of California Press. 9. 2009 Devon Hinton and Byron Good, eds. Culture and Panic Disorder. Stanford University Press. 10. 2010 Byron Good, Michael Fischer, Sarah Willen, Mary-Jo Good. A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers. 11. 2015 Devon Hinton and Byron Good, eds. Culture and PTSD. University of Pennsylvania Press. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES 1. 1988 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good, and Michael M. J. Fischer, editors. Emotion, Illness and Healing in Middle Eastern Societies. Special Issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Vol. 12 No. 1. ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS 4 1. 1976 Byron J. Good. The Professionalization of Medicine in an Iranian Provincial Town. In Madeleine Leininger (ed.), Transcultural Health Care Issues and Conditions, pp. 51-65. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Co. 2. 1976 Byron J. Good. Medical Change and the Doctor-Patient Relationship in an Iranian Provincial Town. In Khodadad Farmanfarmaian (ed.), The Social Sciences and Problems of Development, pp. 244-260. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U. Program in Near Eastern Studies. 3. 1977 Byron J. Good. The Heart of What's the Matter: Semantics and Illness in Iran. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1:25-58. 4. 1978 Arthur Kleinman, Leon Eisenberg, and Byron Good. Culture, Illness and Care: Clinical Lessons from Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research. Annals of Internal Medicine 88:251-258. 5. 1978 Bill D. Burr, Byron J. Good, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. The Impact of Illness on the Family. In Robert Taylor (ed.), Family Medicine: Principles and Practice, pp. 221-233. New York: Springer-Verlag. 6. 1978 Frederick L. Dunn and Byron J. Good. Priorities for Research to Advance the Comparative Study of Medical Systems: Summary of the Discussion at the Final Session of the Conference. Social Science and Medicine 12:135-137. 7. 1979 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Gabriel Smilkstein, Byron Joseph Good, Toni Schaffer and Tom Arons. The Family APGAR Index: A Study of Construct Validity. Journal of Family Practice 8:577-582. 8. 1980 Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Grant Farr and Byron J. Good. Social Status and Fertility: A Study of a Town and Three Villages in Northwestern Iran. Population Studies 34:311-319. 9. 1980 Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. The Meaning of Symptoms: A Cultural Hermeneutic Model for Clinical Practice. In Leon Eisenberg and Arthur Kleinman (eds.), The Relevance of Social Science for Medicine, pp. 165-196. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 10. 1981 Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good. The Semantics of Medical Discourse. In Everett Mendelsohn and
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